Linda de Voogd
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. L.D. de Voogd
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- l.d.de.voogd@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0523-8929

Linda de Voogd is an assistant professor at the unit of Clinical Psychology and works in the field of affective neuroscience and translational experimental psychopathology. Her research focusses on (neurobiological) mechanisms of anxiety, stress and trauma and treatment. She is currently working on a project funded by a starter grant from the Ministry of OCW on “Improving translational research on trauma-related psychopathology by taking the clinic into the lab”. The aims of her research are to:
(1) investigate how memories for negative and traumetic events are formed and consolidated, (2) indicate vulnerability and resilience factors for developing anxiety- and trauma-related psychopathology, (3) improve behavioral interventions for the treatment of anxiety- and trauma-related psychopathology.
PhD supervision
- Thomas Willems (Leiden University, 2023-present): Improving translational research on stress-related psychopathology by taking the clinical into the lab.
- Lars Jaswetz (Radboud University, 2018-present): Defensive responses to threat related to anxiety: accounting for sympathetic and parasympathetic arousal.
- Felix Klaassen (Radboud University, 2019-2023): The role of defensive freezing states in approach-avoidance decision-making under threat.
Teaching
- Coordinator and lecturer of the bachelor course ‘Interpersonal Professional Skills’
- Supervision of (Research) Master thesis, Bachelor thesis, and research internships
- Instructor in the bachelor course ‘Clinical Psychology’
- Lecturer in the master course ‘Trauma and Mental Health: Etiology, Prevention, Diagnostics and Treatment’
- Lecturer in the research master course ‘Biological Underpinnings of Psychopathology’
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Voogd L.D. de, Hashemi M.M., Zhang W., Ast V.A. van, Klumpers F. & Roelofs K. (2025), Amygdala hyperactivity in PTSD: disentangling predisposing from consequential factors in a prospective longitudinal design, Biological Psychiatry : .
- Hulsman A.M., Klaassen F.H., Voogd L.D. de, Roelofs K. & Klumpers F (2024), How distributed subcortical integration of reward and threat may inform subsequent approach–avoidance decisions, The Journal of Neuroscience 44(48): e0794242024.
- Klaasen F.H., Voogd L.D. de, Hulsman A.M., O'Reilly J.X., Klumpers F., Figner B. & Roelofs K. (2024), The neurocomputational link between defensive cardiac states and approachavoidance arbitration under threat, Communications Biology 7: 1-15 (576).
- Lloyd B., Voogd L. de, Mäki-Marttunen V. & Nieuwenhuis S.T. (2023), Pupil size reflects activation of subcortical ascending arousal system nuclei during rest, eLife 12: 1-24 (e84822).
- Kredlow M.A., Voogd L.D. de & Phelps E.A. (2022), A case for translation from the clinic to the laboratory, Perspectives on Psychological Science 17(4): 1120-1149.
- Voogd L.D. de & Hermans E.J. (2022), Meta-analytic evidence for downregulation of the amygdala during working memory maintenance, Human Brain Mapping 43(9): 2951-2971.
- de Voogd Lycia D Hermans Erno J Phelps Elizabeth A (2018), Regulating defensive survival circuits through cognitive demand via large-scale network reorganization, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 24: 124-129.
- De Voogd L.D, Kanen J.W., Neville D.A., Roelofs K., Fernández G. & ermans E.J. (2018), Eye-Movement Intervention Enhances Extinction via Amygdala Deactivation, Journal of Neuroscience 38(40): 8694-8706.
- Voogd L.D. de, Fernández G. & Hermans E.J. (2016), Awake reactivation of emotional memory traces through hippocampal–neocortical interactions, NeuroImage 134: 563-572.